Career path

MAKE Consulting offers a transforming development to every one of our consultants. All MAKE consultants must confidently believe, that after a number of years at MAKE, their skills have developed and have transformed them into more accomplished persons:

  • professionally; in terms of the professional skills they bring to bear on client problems, and the way in which they conduct themselves in MAKE
  • socially; in the way they interact with colleagues in MAKE, and more widely in the way they relate to other people inside and outside their professional life
  • internally; in terms of their self confidence and their understanding of their own strengths and weaknesses, and in the sense that they can be proud of their accomplishments during their career in MAKE.

Such a transforming development has to be based on continuous learning throughout the consultant’s career. Consulting is a uniquely intense and varied profession which offers an accelerated learning experience. However, such learning does not take place automatically. Each of our consultants must have a commitment to learn and develop throughout the entire span of their careers at MAKE and to have an understanding that this learning does not stop at any age.

This calls for a wide and deep range of personal and technical competencies as well as a talent for analysis, communication and cooperation.

At whatever level a consultant joins MAKE, we will be promising the consultant an ongoing development and learning experience. At given stages in our consultants’ careers in MAKE, we will feed back to them:

  • where they are in their career
  • what their strengths and weaknesses are
  • what their personal development plan should be to move to the “next stage” in their career.

Our rank system is designed to identify where the individual is in his or her career with MAKE. Our rank and role descriptors enable MAKE to score consultants according to the tailored set of performance criteria which define what we expect of each consultant at each rank, and are tied closely to performance review forms which allow us to measure consultants against these criteria. This also enables us to identify accurately the developmental needs of each consultant, to link consultants into a compensation formula that is appropriate for that level, and to articulate clearly to each consultant the next stage of personal development in terms of actions to be taken and expectations to be met.

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